Aimed at both working programmers who are applying for a job
where puzzles are an integral part of the interview, as well as
techies who just love a good puzzle, this book offers a cache of
exciting puzzles

Features a new series of puzzles, never before published,
called elimination puzzles that have a pedagogical aim of helping
the reader solve an entire class of Sudoku-like puzzles

Provides the tools to solve the puzzles by hand and
computer

The first part of each chapter presents a puzzle; the second
part shows readers how to solve several classes of puzzles
algorithmically; the third part asks the reader to solve a mystery
involving codes, puzzles, and geography

Comes with a unique bonus: if readers actually solve the
mystery, they have a chance to win a prize, which will be promoted
on wrox.com!